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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: garycottle on March 05, 2008, 06:15:07 am ---
I really liked Dennis Quaid in Far From Heaven. That was a pretty serious role. Did you see him in that?
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Yes, I did, and I thought he was great.
I liked Dennis Quaid from the very first time I saw him, in Breaking Away. Have you seen that, Gary? There's a good daydream movie! I also liked him in The Long Riders, The Right Stuff, The Big Easy (oh yes, for that one! "Watch out for the gator, baby!"), Everybody's All American, Great Balls of Fire, Undercover Blues, The Parent Trap, The Rookie....do you get the feeling I am a Dennis Quaid fan? Lately, though, it seems like he is picking stupid roles just to make a buck: The Day After Tomorrow, Yours, Mine, and Ours and now, Vantage Point. Sigh....
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: garycottle on March 05, 2008, 04:35:43 am ---I didn't like The Family Stone either. I thought the way the mother treated her son's girlfriend was both mean-spirited and weird. But the story never confronted that. It was as if we were to think her attitude was sympathetic, and it wasn't. It was nasty.
And then the way they sprang that bit about the mother dying there at the end seemed really strange. That came out of left field.
I love Diane Keaton, but I sure didn't like her character in this film. I kept wanting Sarah Jessica Parker's character to give her a good smack. :P So what if she's this man's mother, and she's dying? She doesn't get to decide who he's going to marry.
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I wanted to wring Diane Keaton's neck. What a witch of a mother...grrrr....I hear that Diane hasn't been a very nice character in her other recent movies (Because I Said So and Mad Money). They say that women of a "certain age" have a hard time finding decent roles but look at Helen Mirren. She's the same age as Diane and doesn't seem to have accepted the fact that she has to be a bitch on screen to keep working. Jane Fonda is another one who seems to be falling into the same trap.
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: garycottle on March 05, 2008, 06:15:07 am ---I really liked Dennis Quaid in Far From Heaven. That was a pretty serious role. Did you see him in that?
Did you see Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas?
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Oh, there you go, finding exceptions to what I thought was a perfect rule of thumb. ::) ;) You're right, I loved Dennis Quaid in FFH, too. And I thought Nicholas Cage was good in LLV (though I wasn't exactly happy I'd seen the movie). So maybe I should amend that to say, I like them in light comedies or in character dramas, but not in action films.
I defy you to find an exception in Kevin Costner's case, though. A week or so ago, I watched the first 10 minutes of Mr. Brooks and knew I wouldn't be able to stand it. I switched it off. Too horrible. I watched The Heartbreak Kid instead, which I thought was going to be stupid but turned out to be kind of (emphasis on the kind of) funny and cute.
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on March 05, 2008, 07:34:19 am ---I wanted to wring Diane Keaton's neck. What a witch of a mother...grrrr....I hear that Diane hasn't been a very nice character in her other recent movies (Because I Said So and Mad Money). They say that women of a "certain age" have a hard time finding decent roles but look at Helen Mirren. She's the same age as Diane and doesn't seem to have accepted the fact that she has to be a bitch on screen to keep working. Jane Fonda is another one who seems to be falling into the same trap.
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TFS was one of those watershed roles that changed my whole view of Diane Keaton. She'd better do a nice sympathetic or at least funny role, fast.
Jane Fonda has fallen into the same trap, but I think that's because she felt it was a hurdle to get back into movies at all.
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MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on March 05, 2008, 09:44:13 am ---
TFS was one of those watershed roles that changed my whole view of Diane Keaton. She'd better do a nice sympathetic or at least funny role, fast.
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True. On her biography on IMDb, it doesn't even list anything as being in production. Maybe she is taking a break to reassess the disaster her career has become at the moment.
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Jane Fonda has fallen into the same trap, but I think that's because she felt it was a hurdle to get back into movies at all.
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Yes, this is true. And why did she have to get back into the movies, anyway? Georgia Rule and Monster-in-Law certainly aren't shining stars in the cinematic firmament. LOL
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oilgun:
I don't mind Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda (etc.) playing unsympathetic characters, I just wish they did it in movies worth seeing, lol!
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